Blood culture is a microbiological culture of blood. It is employed to detect infections that are spreading through the bloodstream (such as bacteremia, septicemia amongst others). This is possible because the bloodstream is usually a sterile environment.
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“Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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—Alice Neel (1900–1984)